Gaurav Gugnani — Product Manager

An Innovative, Result Oriented and Experienced Cloud/Data Architect, Analytics Leader with over 17 years of experience and excellent reputation in identifying and resolving business problems, improving customer satisfaction and operational excellence using data driven decision making techniques with proven management and hands on technical leadership. Having Rich experience in IT Delivery and R&D, accountable for business and delivering multi million dollar customer projects across the globe including pre sales, product management, business development, Program Management and hands on working experience on the waterfall and agile deliveries with multi domain technology expertise in Cloud & Big Data. Strong focus in developing businesses through Quality, Cost Efficiency and People Partnership. Achievements: - Managing several key/strategic projects (~1-2M$ TCV) including large and complex programs for Cloud Migration, Product & Application Development and Release. Lead the end to end delivery of "IOC (Integrated Operation Center) IoT Solution" and "NCAS (Nokia Cloud Automation Service) Cloud Monitoring and Automation Solution" for various customers across NAM/Europe/India region. - Find out areas and govern various teams to reduce Cloud expenditure by 20% from ~50Million USD to 40Million USD. - Lead the project end to end & Successfully migrated the service from Oracle to AWS Aurora MySQL to save 950k$ per year. Been awarded for same. Expertise: - Identify new Digital opportunities, New Technology, Cost Saving Initiatives, Automation and proposing to the Client. - Stakeholder Management (Internal/Client) up to CXO/VP career stage while ensuring high levels of client satisfaction. - Presales Solution Architecture & Delivery - Public Cloud Migration - Building Data Platform - Generating Insight from Data - Leadership and Team Management - Program and Project Management - Handling commercial acumen i.e. Estimation, Budgeting, Maintaining ROI - Maintaining strong business communication, presentation and conflict management. I believe in "Lift as you Rise" and I am open to any dialogue or opportunity to help others in their journey. For the same, I'm open for 1:1 slots for any help or guidance around my area of expertise.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud and Data Architect specializing in enterprise solutions and cloud migration.

Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Experience: 18 yrs 6 mos

Skills

Cloud Migration
Technical Program Management
Solution Architecture
Cloud Monitoring
Data Analysis
Database Architecture
Database Administration
Performance Tuning
Database Migration
Backup And Recovery

Career Highlights

Led multi-million dollar cloud migration projects.
Achieved 20% reduction in cloud expenditure.
Successfully migrated services to AWS, saving $950k annually.

Work Experience

Nokia

Data Governance Architect (1 yr 1 mo)

Samsung Electronics

General Manager Technical (2 yrs 8 mos)

Nokia

Solution Architect Cloud (1 yr 8 mos)

Solution Architect IoT (2 yrs 5 mos)

Samsung Electronics

Chief Engineer (Database Solution Architect) (1 yr 7 mos)

Belkin International

Database Architect (1 yr 8 mos)

Ciena

Module Lead (1 yr 7 mos)

Agnity Inc.

DBA (2 yrs 10 mos)

Dell Perot Systems

S/W Engineer (3 yrs)

Education

Senior Management Program at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

MCA at Jamia Hamdard

BCA at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Higher Secondary at CFS, Delhi

Gaurav Gugnani

Product Manager

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India18 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led multi-million dollar cloud migration projects.
Achieved 20% reduction in cloud expenditure.
Successfully migrated services to AWS, saving $950k annually.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud and Data Architect specializing in enterprise solutions and cloud migration.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud MigrationTechnical Program ManagementSolution ArchitectureCloud MonitoringData AnalysisDatabase ArchitectureDatabase AdministrationPerformance TuningDatabase MigrationBackup And Recovery

Other Skills

Data Strategy & PlatformFinOpsTeam ManagementCustomer handlingBusiness DevelopmentAutomation SolutionPublic CloudMulti-cloud supportCloud Security EnhancementsIoT SolutionsPublic Safety DomainDatabase ArchitectCloud DeploymentDatabase DesignAWS Aurora MySQL

About

Experience

18 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 1 mo

Current Experience

Nokia

Data Governance Architect

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Hybrid

Samsung electronics

General Manager Technical

Sep 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Delhi, India

Driving digitalization, Cloud Migration & data driven initiatives. Designing Scalable Solutions and Optimizing Data Management.
Leading projects intended for improving performance, efficiencies and quality of Backend TV & DA (Digital Appliances) services.
FinOps: Cloud Cost & Budget governance.
Data Strategy & Platform. Data Governance.
Cloud Automation & Operations
Infra Monitoring
Technical Program Management
MDE: Multi Device Experience
Competitor Analysis
Team Management.
Customer handling.
Business Development.

Cloud MigrationData Strategy & PlatformTechnical Program ManagementFinOpsTeam ManagementCustomer handling+1

Nokia

2 roles

Solution Architect Cloud

Dec 2020 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

Designed and Implemented end-to-end Cloud Monitoring and Automation Solution.
Participated in various customer demos and worked closely with Sales team on preparing budgeting/costing for the "to be deployed" solution.
Diverse Teck stack includes ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, AWX etc
Working and providing support on both public and Nokia Private cloud (Nokia Engineering Service Cloud).
Multi cloud support specialist (AWS/Azure/Openstack).
Building tools to automate Cloud deployment and detect anomalies.
Support on Cloud Security Enhancements.

Cloud MonitoringAutomation SolutionPublic CloudMulti-cloud supportCloud Security EnhancementsSolution Architecture

Solution Architect IoT

Jul 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Currently working as Global Solution Architect IoT to create solutions which can help customer to solve business problem.
Taking care of public safety domain.
Solution development: E2E architect for customer solution from trials/POCs to production end deployment.
Involved in pre-sales activities: Customer demos, Vendor selection and onboarding, prepare budgetary/binding quotes for solution.
Database Architect: Taking care of our databases running on cloud or customer premise. Ensure 100% availability with 0 downtime. Database/Schema design to make queries run smoothly with no delays on application.
Data Analyst: Analyze data, Prepare dashboards and reports for customers to provide insight upon devices and data pattern using Tableau/Grafana.
Cloud Architect: Deployed solutions on AWS / Nokia cloud / customer premise. AWS services used S3/ EC2/ ELB/ RDS/ Route53/ VPC/ IGW/ SNS / Cloudwatch/ etc

IoT SolutionsPublic Safety DomainDatabase ArchitectData AnalysisCloud DeploymentSolution Architecture

Samsung electronics

Chief Engineer (Database Solution Architect)

Dec 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Worked as Database Architect, designed the database to handle traffic from millions of TVs over Single Sign On User and TV authentication.
Successfully migrated the service from Oracle to AWS Aurora MySQL to save 950k$ per year. Been awarded for same.
Designed and worked over DB changes required to support GDPR.
Handled AWS cloud for all databases running in different environments. (100s of DBs across 20+ services over 4 different env)

Database DesignAWS Aurora MySQLGDPR ComplianceCloud ManagementDatabase ArchitectureCloud Migration

Belkin international

Database Architect

Mar 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Film city, Noida, Uttar pradesh

Working as a Database Administrator Developer:
Handling more than 80 MySQL Database servers in more than 5 different environment having 200 GBs of data with more than 5k writes and 20k reads per second.
Supporting Master-Master replication env.
Working on amazon web services across ec2, s3, Aurora, RDS.
Deploying high writes project on Cassandra with 1500+ writes per second using clustered env. (4 nodes)
MySQL 5.6 installation & Upgradation of MySQL from 5.5 to 5.6.
DB Parameters tuning and query optimization
Deployed an automated system to generate horizontal partitioning across table levels on various database. And drop of older partitions automatically.
Generating 20+ reports on weekly basis using Tableau from red shift server.

MySQL Database AdministrationReplicationPerformance TuningAWS ServicesDatabase Administration

Ciena

Module Lead

Jul 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

Currently working as a DBA handling 3 modules running on MySQL DB's.
Primary Role:
Migrate whole system from Oracle to MySQL
Intensive work with DEV team so as to support Schema changes/Query optimization
Enterprise backup strategy and recovery aspect
Automate MySQL Installation
DB server performance improvement.

MySQL MigrationBackup StrategyQuery OptimizationDatabase MigrationBackup and Recovery

Agnity inc.

DBA

Aug 2010 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Noida Area, India

Worked as a MYSQL DBA - with responsibilities of installation, DB design, applying database activity patches, backup/recovery mechanism, replication, up gradation, performance tuning, day-to-day DB related activities.
Handling more than 50 servers in 5 different environment containing GBs of data in production.
Support MW team on Query tuning and database related issues.
Used nagios/percona (3rd party tools).

Database InstallationPerformance TuningBackup MechanismDatabase Administration